LitHub Daily: March 4, 2016

TODAY: In 1852, Nikolai Gogol, none days after attempting to burn part II of Dead Souls, dies. 

• The wonderful, proto-feminist snark of Jane Austen’s juvenilia, plus an entire (short) novel by young Austen, “The beautifull Cassandra.” | Literary Hub
• “What was I going to say? That this or that writer was not Virginia Woolf but was similarly female?” Rivka Galchen on women writers and gender envy. | The New Yorker
• Choice didn’t enter at this point: Garth Greenwell on writing a 41-page paragraph and block paragraph novels. | Catapult
• “The broad spectrum of humanity, which runs from the sublime to the brutal, has for me been like a difficult homework problem ever since I was a child.” An interview with Han Kang. | The White Review
• I am never lonely and never bored: Poetry by Mary Ruefle and John Ashbery from the new issue of the Paris Review. | The Paris Review
• “Before the selfie came ‘the self’” and other insights on Jane Eyre and the formation of individuality. | The Atlantic
• “That’s kind of in a sense what the poem comes from, the idea of healing together and breathing together.” An interview with Richard Blanco, the poet who read at the re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. | The Alignist
• Melville House, being Melville House, is trolling the NRA on behalf of one of its books. | Flavorwire
• “How much affection can two people inflict on each other until each starts to change?” A short story by Rosa Aiello. | Triple Canopy

Also on Literary Hub: An ode to the late St. Mark’s Bookshop and its A-list roster of regulars · A highly subjective and idiosyncratic list of 102 indispensible works of literary criticism · Do artists still find inspiration in literature? · 30 Books in 30 Days: Kate Tuttle on Sam Quinones’ Dreamland · I’m not Angry: from Kaitlyn Greenidge’s We Love You, Charlie Freeman

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